Folks have been pining for native iPhone apps since before the thing was even for sale. Since I have had my hands (at least one of them) wrapped around mine almost non-stop since June 29, I have begun to identify my most wanted apps for iPhone. This is a short list. I will post a follow up to this post on the apps I don’t need to see for iPhone, so stay tuned for that. Without further ado…

MobileiChat

This is the one that seems to make everyone’s list. My main reason for wanting this is that I want my chat transcripts to sync back to my Mac. This can’t be done easily with Meebo or any of the other chat apps to my knowledge. I don’t think I would use this that often, but when I do, I’d like it to sync my transcripts back.

iScrobbler

This is the one place where I don’t really care about the mechanism. What I want is iPhone to post the listening I do from iPhone to my Last.FM account. The standalone app on Mac OS X is iScrobbler. On my MacBook, however, CoverSutra handles my Last.FM postings. I don’t care how it gets done, but this needs to happen. And in the background, please people.

Shopping

Earlier today, David Chartier posted his desire for a shopping app for iPhone. I, too, would like to see a shopping app, and I would like to see a feature that would make it a native app exclusively: barcode scanning. Delicious Library brought barcode scanning to the Mac via iSight. It would be steak sauce to scan the barcode with the iPhone camera for even faster searches.

Jumsoft Money (or similar)

This is the one app that would actually make my life better. The others are nice, but this one is where life starts to actually improve. Some sort of way to manage financial transactions while on the go would be choice. Jumsoft Money is my app of choice for this on my MacBook, so I’d like to see a mobile version of it so that my data would sync back to home base.

Skitch

This is one that can’t be passed up. I love Skitch. The UI is very intuitive, so much so that you might actually miss some of the features like how easy it is to crop a picture. But Skitch is essentially fingerpainting. A few small buttons or a popup list for switching tools, a size selector like the desktop version, and two buttons for save and clear is all that would be needed for hours of fun. Then, the user could publish their creations to .Mac Web Gallery or Flickr.

Those are the apps that I have found myself wanting over the past two plus months of life with iPhone. Where have I missed it? Let me know in comments.